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Published: 2013-12-04 22:46:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 2025; Favourites: 46; Downloads: 7
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Every 10 seconds, a healthy dog or cat is euthanized in a U.S. shelter in order to make room for more un-adopted dogs and cats. Please consider adopting your next pet.
This is an animal adoption banner for Howrse.com. In the past I made banners for other causes as well (such as adopting children), but Howrse deleted them saying they were "too political." I made this in Microsoft PowerPoint.
I'd love constructive criticism!
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my friend needs more cats! they can all blep blep blep blep blep
oh and dogs
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My own cat come's from a shelter and I never regretted it. Sure, he's kind of useless at being a cat and sucks at even the most basic of feline behavior (I have never heard of a cat before whom is afraid of rodents or likes veggies prior to getting Sam.), but he's still an adoreble compagnion, especially when I'm working on a project at night and he cuddles up against me :3
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Aww, he's a little fur baby! Kitties are so precious. I plan to adopt a dog or cat (maybe both) someday, but right now I don't live in a place that allows furry critters. I have fish, though. They're my little fish babies! Did you know there are goldfish adoption websites? Unfortunately, no one seems to use them very often.
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Indeed they are 
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I was aware of that, yeah. I think its because many people assume that fish (with a couple of exceptions) are boring pets that are more like decorations instead of genuine pets.
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This is a whole other issue that needs more attention, the overpopulation of domestic animals. Did you know some parents get their pets pregnant to show their kids 'the miracle of birth' and later attempt to sell or abandon the offspring. Sick. It also makes me angry so many families consider shelter animals unfit or not 'good enough' to be adopted. Only breeding yet another litter into the world is an option.
All my pets are rescues. My two cats were starving abandoned kittens. One I found six years ago in an abandoned meth house, the other I recently found in my parking lot during a thunder storm. People who are evicted often leave inconveniences like pets behind.
I cleaned them up and took them to the vet and then home.
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I think some people just don't think about it. They just think, "oh, I want this type of dog," so they go to a breeder. Sometimes a family might need something very specific if they have a kid with special needs, but that's the minority.
Fortunately, more and more people are realizing the need for pet adoptions! My dog was adopted from a shelter. I want my next goldfish to be adopted, if I can swing that!
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I have seen pet stores that get all of their cats and dogs from animal shelters.
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That's awesome!
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Plus, when you adopt a pet, they are cheaper than buying from a breeder or pet store, AND they're fixed & 'chipped 
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Yep! Well, not all shelters fix and chip their animals, but a lot do. Most fix them. My dog was fixed when I got her. I miss her. She was 16 when she died.
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I'm sorry for your lose, but it's good she lived that long. That's another good thing about fixing, animals that are fixed live longer. Any cat I get I plan on getting from PAWS or NOAH so I don't have to worry about heat cycles or fixing.
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I still have dreams that she's still around and I'm just forgetting to feed her...
People tell me that virgins don't live as long as people who have sex all the time, but I think that's a load of hokey. I see no evidence for it, and evidence to the contrary in the animal world. Sorry, that's one of my hot spots, I guess.
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Adopted my two kitties two years ago, the last of the litter, now they're my babies
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Aww! Kitties! I'd love to adopt cat(s), but people in my family are allergic. We adopted a dog when I was a kid and it turned out almost everyone in the family was allergic to her, except maybe me, but we still loved her and kept her until she passed away at 16 years old. She was the best dog ever, even if she was a little bit bone-headed sometimes, lol!
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THOSE BABY ANIMALS!!!! TOO KAWAII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But seriously, euthanasia is murder, whether on humans or animals. And those healthy animals deserve to live.
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ALL HAIL THE HUMAN SPECIES! THE SUPERIOR SPECIES TO ALL OTHER CREATURES IN EVERY WAY!
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Murder is defined as the "unlawful killing of a human," so no, it's not murder if it's done to animals. Currently, euthanasia of humans is murder, but not animals. They have to do it to make room for other animals, so that's why I believe more people should adopt instead of buying fancy purebreds, and that people should fix all their pets unless they plan to breed them. Most animals in shelters are dogs and cats that were born accidentally from irresponsible owners who neglected to fix their pets. They're essentially "unplanned pregnancies."
If people fixed their animals and if more people adopted, then we wouldn't have nearly as many animals in shelters, and they wouldn't have to euthanize them.
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This is so cute with a nice message 
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Thanks! I think the puppy might actually be in the front. I made it in PowerPoint a bunch of years ago, so I don't remember exactly what order all the layers are in. The edge fading is a little clumsy either way.
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Apparently contraceptive pills have made new stride and longer lasting. A country could control street animals at a minute fraction of neutering costs.
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I thought fertility drugs were a dart or a shot. That's how wild horses (like Chincoteague ponies) are managed. Either way, though, neutering is permanent whereas fertility drugs wear off. I'd use fertility drugs if I had a female dog than I kept outside unattended but intended to breed her one day, but my family never had any intention of breeding our dog. We love her and she's a great pet, but she's not good breeding stock. That's why we neutered her.
But yes, fertility drugs are a good option if you don't want your pet permanently infertile.
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